Digital Public Sphere and Women: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Reader’s Online Comments on the Column “the Other Half”published in ‘the Hindu

Dr. B. Radha

doi:10.65301/ijcd.2023.13.3.4.7

Articles Vol. 13 Issue 3 & 4 Jan - Jun 2023

DOI 10.65301/ijcd.2023.13.3.4.7

Digital Public Sphere and Women: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Reader’s Online Comments on the Column “the Other Half”published in ‘the Hindu

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Dr. B. Radha

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Published 2023-06-30

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Abstract

Mainstream media content on socially crucial issues generates more discussions and debates in online platforms. The online news sites encourage reader’s participation by means of enabling them to like, share, comment on the content. This paves way for the readers’ engagement with the content as well as other readers. The chain of comments continues to grow sometimes to more than hundreds or thousands of comments. This phenomenon initiates a public discussion on the online news platforms. It is interesting and vital to know the public opinion on socially crucial content based on their online participation. This paper analyses the online comments of readers on the content exclusively written on women issues, the column in the daily, The Hindu by Kalpana Sharma. Using Critical Discourse Analysis as the theoretical and methodological background this paper analyses the user generated content

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CDA Reader's Comments Online news Portals The Hindu The Other Half Kalpana Sharma

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Dr. B. Radha . (2023). Digital Public Sphere and Women: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Reader’s Online Comments on the Column “the Other Half”published in ‘the Hindu. International Journal of Communication Development , 13(3), 14-21.

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[1] 1.Byerly, C. M. and Ross, K. (2006). Women and Media: A Critical Introduction(First ed.). USA, U.K. and Australia, USA: Blackwell Publishing.

[2] 2.Fairclough, N. (1992). Discourse and social change. Cambridge: Polity Press.

[3] 3.Fairclough, N. (1995). Media discourse. London: Arnold.

[4] 4.Figueiredo, C. D. (1998a). An analysis of transitivity choices in the appellate decisions in rape cases. Fragmentos , 8 (1), 97-113.

[5] 5.Figueiredo, D. D. (1998b). Identities and Gender in the Discourse of Rape Trials. Fragmentos , 7 (2), 85.

[6] 6.Janks, H. (2006). Critical Discourse Analysis as a Research Tool. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 329-342.

[7] 7.John, M. E. (2014). Feminist Vocabularies in space and time: Perspectives from India, Economic and Political Weekly, May 31, 2014, Vol XLIX No. 22.

[8] 8.Lu, J., & Catalano, T. (2015). Let them learn English: Reader response to media discourse about dual language education. International Journal of Language Studies, 1-26.

[9] 9.Mahfouz, A. R. (2013). A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Police News Story Framing in two Egyptian Newspapers before January 25 Revolution. European Scientific Journal, 9 (8), 309-332.

[10] 10.Mogashoa, T. (2014). Understanding Critical Discourse Analysis in Qualitative Research. International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education , 1 (7), 104-112.

[11] 11.Purcell, K., Rainie, L., Mitchell, A., Rosenstiel, T., & Olmstead, K. (2010, March 1). Understanding the participatory news consumer: How Internet and cell phone users have turned news into a social experience. Retrieved from Pew Internet & American Life Project website: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Online-News.aspx

[12] 12.Van Dijk, T. A. ( 1988). News as discourse. . Hillsdale,NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

[13] 13.Van Dijik, T. A. (2001). The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. (D. Schiffrin, D. Tannen, & H. D. Hamilton, Eds.) USA: Blackwell Publishers.

[14] 14.Walther, J. B., David, D., Kim, J., & Antony, J. C. (2010). The Influence of Online Comments on perceptions of Antimarijuana Public Service Announcement on Youtube. Human Communication Research, 469-492.